Word: ziman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this work that brings him into contact with the Ziman family, middle-class Parisian Jews who hire him to help them escape the Nazi occupation--promising, in return, to read Les Miserables to him on the way to the Swiss border. Much of the film focuses on the fracturing of this family and their terrible struggle to survive. In the meantime, of course, Fortin is obsessively pursued by his version of Inspector Javert, here a nameless policeman collaborating with the Nazis and a man seemingly as outraged by Fortin's lack of complexity as he is by his untutored goodness...
...first time in this century, fear of crime is the main catalyst for this burgeoning exodus. "People may want to be here," says Richard Anderson, head of New York's Regional Plan Association, "but the things that drive them away are bubbling to the surface." Says Laura Ziman, a native New Yorker who recently fled to upstate New York with her husband and their two toddlers: "I love the city, but it's just becoming unlivable...
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